Codex Tro-Cortesianus (Codex Madrid) Facsimile

Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz, Austria, 1967.

From title page: Codex Tro-Cortesianus (Codex Madrid) Museo de America Madrid Codices Selecti, Phototypice Impressi - Volume VIII

First Edition. Square quarto (11 x 11 inches) Clamshell box in patterned paper, titled in black and with leather spine, containing a softcover book and two folding folding color facsimile reproductions of the codex, approx 13 ft x 10 inches and 8 ft x 10 inches.  Book:  54pp + b&w fold out chart, color and b&w illustrations, text in German, summary in English.

An introduction and summary are authored by Ferdinand Anders. The shorter summary section is in English, and the last page is a fold out chart.

Following notes are edited from the Madrid Codex entry at the Foundation for Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies web site. 

In 1967, the Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, of Graz, Austria printed the full Codex Tro-Cortesianus, as a facsimile from color photos, with introduction and summary by Ferdinand Anders.  It is remarkably well-done. The Graz  is one of the most used renditions of the Madrid today.

The Madrid Codex was separated into two parts very early on in its European history, and thus traveled different paths in Europe until 1888. In 1880, the Frenchman Léon de Rosny figured out that the two parts were a single codex, now commonly called the "Madrid", or the "Tro-Cortesianus". The two parts had been called the “Troano” (after the first owner, Don Juan Tro y Ortolano, a professor of Spanish palæography) and the “Cortesanius”. The Troano comprises pages 22-56, 78-112 and the Cortesianus pages 1-21, 57-77 of the Madrid. Since pages 77 and 78 were for some reason always upside-down within the codex, page 78 might be thought of as coming before page 77. Both parts were re-united in 1888, and the Madrid Codex is now in the Museo de América, in Madrid, Spain.

Note: there are two fan-folded pages, printed on both sides of the Codex. In the photos, we show one complete side of the larger of the two codes. The total number of images is more than 3 times greater than this in the collection. 

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